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Climate Change & Sustainability

Overview

From impact investing to developing clean, environmentally friendly projects and initiatives, we help corporations, philanthropies and individuals identify and execute on business practices and investment strategies that are both economically profitable and environmentally sustainable. We counsel clients at all stages of energy and sustainability project development, including screening, structuring, developing and financing projects for hosts, developers and investors. We evaluate energy and environmental regulatory issues, tax and governmental incentives, and business and contractual risks for energy and sustainability projects. We structure public-private partnerships and project financings, and we assist with integrating sustainability goals and requirements into energy procurements, projects and enterprises. We defend lawsuits by activist groups seeking to hold energy companies liable for alleged damages from climate change, using our environmental, administrative law and litigation experience. And as companies contemplate becoming a benefit corporation or sustainable business, we’re here to help; we were intimately involved in the legislative process in many of the states that have authorized benefit corporations (B Corps), and we know the legal requirements necessary to attain B Corp status.

Insights & Events

Insights
Updates October 2025

Power and Energy Trends Shaping the Data Center Industry

Proactive Legal and Advocacy Strategies Are Increasingly Critical
6 min read
Updates June 2025

Supreme Court Decides Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA

3 min read
Podcast May 2025

The Role of Entrepreneurs: Discussion of How Entrepreneurs Use Innovation, Technology and Guts to Blaze a Path Towards Sustainability

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read
Updates April 2025

Does Your Food Packaging Comply With New State Laws?

Regulatory Updates From California, New Jersey, Maryland, Oregon & More
7 min read
Updates March 2025

EPA Rolls Back Regulations From Climate Change to ‘Waters of the United States’

PFAS and Superfund Do Not Make the List
4 min read
Published Articles February 2025

The Impact of Biden’s Last-Minute Ethylene Oxide Decision

2 min read
Podcast January 2025

Trading in Sustainable/Carbon Commodities: Good, Bad and Opportunities

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
1 min read
Published Articles January 2025

Dorris v. Danone: Stemming the Tide of Greenwashing Litigation

1 min read
Updates December 2024

Butterfly Nets and Business Bets: How Proposed Protections for Monarchs Could Snare Agribusiness, Renewables and Development

Public Comment Sought on Exceptions
4 min read
Podcast November 2024

Green People Earth: Facilitating the Intersection of Compliance Carbon Markets and Voluntary Carbon Markets

Deanna’s Dialogues: Navigating Carbon Sustainability
2 min read

Meet The Team

Meet The Full Climate Change & Sustainability Team